Group and individual work, based around movement meditation, and somatic movement therapy, with space for drawing, painting, writing and speaking.

These sessions offer an opportunity to practice listening to, and following the body, in a supportive environment.

A safe space for exploring movement, expression and relationship, drawing on somatic movement therapy, and established forms.

Gentle movement exploration in this way offers a means of arriving home, to body and to self.

This work is fully accessible and it is possible to join in seated or with limited mobility

Held at a number of churches venues including The Abbey Sutton Courtney and Our Lady's in West Oxford and St Michaels

welcome@heart-light.org

We are working with a number of practitioners about offering these spaces including Caroline Born and Jason Rowe dance

Our primary practitioner at present Claire Rosemary Cecil is a movement and bodywork facilitator, with a background in an extensive range of practices and approaches.

Including dance and somatic movement therapy, based largely around the creative movement meditation practice Authentic Movement, and Embodied Anatomy.

She is completing accreditation as a registered somatic movement therapist (RSMT) with ISMETA, and offers individual and group work.

She has a Foundation in Dance Movement Psychotherapy from Roehampton University, and has also completed extensive CPD courses, - including person centred counselling, and biodynamic craniosacral therapy.

Over twenty years of dance and movement work also inform her practice, in particular Caroline Born’s teaching facilitating and Anna Halprin’s Tamalpa Life and Art Process, 5 Rhythms, Authentic Movement, and Chloe De Sousa’s dance teaching and Steve Haines somatic work around Safety.

Claire has ITEC level 3 Diplomas in Holistic Massage and Anatomy and Physiology, both with distinction, as well as Certificate in deep tissue massage,

She is also trained in the Dr. Vodder method of Manual Lymphatic Drainage, through the Dr. Vodder Academy International.

Claire has practiced from the Wellbeing Clinic in Oxford. Since returning to practice, she is happily facilitating movement groups in Oxford.

Claire is also in discernment for ministry in the Church and she is particularly grateful to St Michael’s St Mary’s and Holy Rood